by NCLA | Jan 4, 2020 | Adi Dynar, Blog
In 2020, the Supreme Court is poised to decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in Bostock v. Clayton County and R.G. & G.R. Funeral Homes v. EEOC. Title VII...
by nclaadmin | Nov 20, 2019 | Adi Dynar, Blog
Perhaps you get a pass if you don’t know that there is a federal agency called the Federal Service Impasses Panel that resolves disputes between federal agencies and federal-employee unions. But the Internal Revenue Service is not some obscure federal agency. IRS is...
by nclaadmin | Nov 6, 2019 | Adi Dynar, Opinion
Federal administrators must love Darth Vader’s iconic –and ominous– line, “I’m altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.” That’s because the Brand X deference doctrine lets them. Deference doctrines require...
by nclaadmin | Oct 17, 2019 | Adi Dynar, Blog
The two executive orders issued by the White House—“Bringing Guidance out of the Darkness,” and “Transparency and Fairness”—promise to start clearing the fog of faulty guidance documents issued by federal administrative agencies in the so-called Washington D.C....
by nclaadmin | Oct 2, 2019 | Adi Dynar, Blog
The Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, is one of the most important legal tools Americans have for ensuring the federal government is transparent. Given the mammoth size of the federal bureaucracy, FOIA helps inform Americans of “what their government...
by Joseph Pimentel | Jul 2, 2019 | Adi Dynar, Blog
Photo by Quinn Dombrowski, Rights ReservedPeople across the political spectrum have strong opinions about whether it is a good idea to include a citizenship question on the 2020 short-form census. This blog post expresses no opinion on whether that is a good or a bad...
